INSTALLATION ART
"Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform a viewer's perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however the boundaries between these terms overlap."
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From Margin to Center
The Spaces of Installation Art
By Julie H. Reiss
“Unlike traditional art works, installation art has no autonomous existence. It is usually created at the exhibition site, and its essence is spectator participation. Installation art originated as a radical art form presented only at alternative art spaces; its assimilation into mainstream museums and galleries is a relatively recent phenomenon. The move of installation art from the margin to the center of the art world has had far-reaching effects on the works created and on museum practice.
This is the first book-length study of installation art. Julie Reiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence, including artists, critics, and curators. Her primary focus is installations created in New York City—which has a particularly rich history of installation art—beginning in the late 1950s. She takes us from Allan Kaprow's 1950s' environments to examples from minimalism, performance art, and process art to establish installation art's autonomy as well as its relationship to other movements.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the effects of exhibition space, curatorial practice, and institutional context on the spectator. The history of installation art—of all art forms, one of the most defiant of formalist tenets—sheds considerable light on the issues raised by this shift of critical focus from isolated art works to art experienced in a particular context.”
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"Installation art is an artwork that encompasses an extended space, it suggests that art lies not in objects alone, but also in the experience of perception....
Installation art can also be site-specific, time sensitive, interactive, environmental."
From the press release for "Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art, 1969-1996," at the San Jose Museum of Art
“Installation art is often temporary, and the physical work is destroyed or stored after exhibition; its documentation is therefore crucial.”
The idea of installation art has become of interest to me this semester. I have been struggling with it though, since I am a photographer, and a lot of the images that I am using are old family images. Yet I feel as if for this project, I need to move away from the definite term of "photographer," and move towards "artist." I want to install the old photographs, which are etched into metal, seamlessly into a floorboard installation to force the viewers to walk on it to emphasize overlooked relationships.
Jac Leirner
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